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The JetHead Blog
Personal blog · jethead.wordpress.comculture
The JetHead Blog is a personal blog at jethead.wordpress.com about culture. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link The JetHead Blog, written by an airline pilot, for its aviation posts on airline safety, pilot skills, drones and fear of flying, often as a pilot's perspective on news stories.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
... the world from 40,000' at 500 mph.
Most-linked posts?
- /2015/08/08/airliners-vs-drones-calm-down/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-13
What Hacker News says?
SFO is said to be a somewhat abnormal/difficult approach [0]. This could cause stress and fractured attention in the pilot. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there was some other complicating factor. Planes don't usually crash (or nearly crash) without several safety factors being breached. 0: https://jethead.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/how-do-you-land-at-...
Comment linking /2013/07/09/how-do-you-land-at-san-francisco-international-airport/
on “SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster”Submitted Why you should Never fly into Washington National Airport as a story · 15 points
HN discussionhelpful read https://jethead.wordpress.com/category/fear-of-flying/
Comment linking /category/fear-of-flying/
on “How Airline Pilots Lost the Basic Skills”Submitted Malaysian 370 and the Land of Oz. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt also works with "cars" circa 1910, or even "books"... See also this opinion of an actual commercial pilot about the risk of a drone hitting a passenger aircraft: https://jethead.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/airliners-vs-drones...
Comment linking /2015/08/08/airliners-vs-drones-calm-down/
on “Show HN: Droners.io – Get anything filmed by a drone”I think it's good that the FAA is documenting close calls with drones, however the press is a little overblown. This long time pilot views drones less of threat then geese or other large birds. That may change if drones get bigger and heavier, but all things point to drones getting smaller. A pilot's view on drones: https://jethead.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/airliners-vs-drones...
Comment linking /2015/08/08/airliners-vs-drones-calm-down/
on “FAA records detail hundreds of close calls between airplanes and drones”There are some strange corner cases out there: > Already requested and had the data linked chart for our landing weight sent up to the aircraft: we require 5,671 feet on a wet runway, good braking, zero tailwind. Each knot of tailwind adds 150 to the distance required, so even one knot of tailwind exceeds the runway length. * https://jethead.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/flying-a-jet-in-the...
Comment linking /2014/12/13/flying-a-jet-in-the-los-angeles-storms-december-12-2014/
on “An Electric Aviation Pioneer Who Aims to Crack the Pilot Shortage”
